When Voices Clash
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When Voices Clash

A Study in Literary Pragmatics

  1. 469 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

When Voices Clash

A Study in Literary Pragmatics

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. 1 Literary pragmatics: Why and what?
  4. 1.1. 'I wanted those ships'
  5. 1.2. The context as a problem
  6. 1.3. 'Don't drive like my brother (or my sister)'
  7. 1.4. Literary pragmatics: A definition
  8. Part One: The sentence
  9. 2 The state of the question
  10. 2.1. What is the question?
  11. 2.2. Banfield's 'unspeakable sentences'
  12. 2.3. Ehrlich: Sentence and narrator
  13. 2.4. Fludernik: A synthesis?
  14. 2.5. 'Lector in fabula'
  15. 3 The language question
  16. 3.1. Reference and deixis
  17. 3.2. Anaphora
  18. 3.3. Tense and point of view
  19. Part Two: Voice
  20. 4 Speakability and voice
  21. 4.1. What is 'speakability'?
  22. 4.2. Speakable and unspeakable sentences
  23. 4.3. FID and grammar
  24. 5 Voice and voice management
  25. 5.1. Vocality and voice
  26. 5.2. Voice management
  27. 5.3. How are voices managed?
  28. 5.4. The 'optics' of FID
  29. 5.5. Speakability and readability
  30. 6 Voice in focus
  31. 6.1. Perspective and voice
  32. 6.2. Multivocality
  33. 7 Voice in transition
  34. 7.1. When voices change
  35. 7.2. When voices clash
  36. 7.3. Unvoicing
  37. Part Three: Perspectives
  38. 8 The dialogic perspective
  39. 8.1. Understanding as dialogue
  40. 8.2. Ownership and responsibility
  41. 8.3. From dialogue to discourse: Cooperation and constraint
  42. 8.4. Does the reader have a voice?
  43. 9 The reader perspective
  44. 9.1. Reader and text
  45. 9.2. The implied reader revisited
  46. 10 The pragmatic perspective
  47. 10.1. The power of words: A pragmatic affair
  48. 10.2. Reported speech: Reality or fiction?
  49. 10.3. Voice power
  50. 10.4. The pragmatic turn
  51. Part Four: The text
  52. 11 The voice of the text
  53. 11.1. The pragmatics of the letter
  54. 11.2. The dialectics of voicing
  55. 11.3. Hegemony and autonomy: A responsible voice
  56. 12 The speakable text
  57. 12.1. Dialogue, text, and sex
  58. 12.2. Linguistics and metalinguistics
  59. 12.3. Dialogue and dialectics
  60. Notes
  61. Primary literature
  62. References
  63. Name index
  64. Subject index